This is a revised edition of Handbook of Blockchain Law: A Guide to Understanding and Resolving the Legal Challenges of Blockchain Technology by Matthias Artzt & Thomas Richter.

International Handbook of Blockchain Law, currently in its second edition, is a handbook comprising new chapters and topics but still following the systematic and structured approach of the first edition. Blockchain’s significant advances since 2020 – including many new use cases – have necessitated a comprehensive revision of the first edition of this matchless resource.

What’s in this book:

Each contributor – all of them practitioners experienced with blockchain projects within their respective areas of expertise and specific jurisdictions – elucidates the implications of blockchain technology and related legal issues under such headings as the following:

• understanding blockchain from a technological point of view
• regulatory aspects of blockchain
• smart contracts
• data privacy
• capital markets
• crypto asset regulation in Europe, the UK and the US
• intellectual property, and
• antitrust law

The foundational chapter on the technical aspects of blockchain technology has been meticulously expanded to elucidate the proof of stake consensus mechanism alongside fresh insights into the ERC-721 Token Standard for non-fungible tokens, decentralized exchanges, staking, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies.

How this will help you:

As blockchain law cements itself as a distinct legal field, this new edition is invaluable for legal practitioners, in-house lawyers, IT professionals, consultancy firms, blockchain associations, and legal scholars. At a depth that allows non-IT experts to understand the groundwork for legal assessments, the handbook provides those charting the dynamic waters of this field of law with a compass, ensuring they are well-equipped to tackle the legal issues raised by the usage of blockchain technology.

 Contents:

List of Abbreviations
Preface

CHAPTER 1. Understanding Blockchain
Jake van der Laan
CHAPTER 2. Regulatory Aspects of Blockchains
Thomas Richter
CHAPTER 3. Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Philip Trillmich, Matthias Goetz & Chris Ewing
CHAPTER 4. Blockchain and Data Privacy
Lothar Determann, William Long & Matthias Artzt
CHAPTER 5. Capital Markets
Michael Jünemann et al.
CHAPTER 6. Crypto-Asset Regulation in Europe and in United Kingdom
Laura Douglas
CHAPTER 7. Regulation of Crypto-Assets in the United States
Kayvan Sadhegi
CHAPTER 8. Blockchain and Intellectual Property
Andreas Holzwarth-Rochford
CHAPTER 9. Blockchain and Antitrust
Jay Modrall

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